The Amoeba in the Room

"I found this book immensely enjoyable and I would encourage anyone wanting to know more about the huge swathe of life on the planet that passes us by unseen to seek out a copy. * Dale Walters, The Biologist * I found this bookimmensely enjoyable and I would encourage anyone wanting to know more about the huge swathe of life on the planet that passes us by unseen to seek out a copy. Indeed, I have recommended it to my students an dit will be recommended reading for one of my modules. * The Biologist, Professor Dale Walters Cbiol FSB * a fascinating reada beautifully written book * The Biologist, Professor Dale Walters Cbiol FSB * fascinating and often startlingly funny bookThis is a truly revolutionary book that turns on its head the way we see the world * Robert Hanbury Tenison, Country Life * Nicholas Money is an excellent guide * Helen Bynum, Times Literary Supplement * An impassioned fascination for microscopic life around and within us...Overall, Money delivers a heady mixture of history, philosophy, art and even poetry...This is a lucid and informative book. There is an impressive afterword of references and notes, and fine line drawings. So much that is lyrical and little-known waits to be discovered here - novelties that will appeal to new undergraduates as well as to incorrigible microbial enthusiasts like myself. * Mark O. Martin, Nature * The world will not seem the same to anyone who reads his book. * Helen Bynum, Times Literary Supplement * [An] excellent introduction to modern microbiology. * Science Uncovered * Beautifully written ... Money has a great style, and a very important message. To see what is really going on in the biosphere, the only zone of life that we know of at this point, you need a microscope. Bacteria are the gods of humans. * The Stranger * ""Nicholas Money is an expert guide. This world will not seem the same to anyone who reads his book."" * The Times Literary Supplement * ""This is a fascinating, amazing, and thoroughly enthusiastic sketch of [the] subject . . . The book helps orient us to new biological horizons - and new philosophic ones."" * The Ecologist * ""Written with great skill and seasoned with wit, the book displays the expertise of the writer."" * San Francisco Book Review * ""Money succeeds, intellectually in convincing you that multicellular creatures count for little in the grand scheme of biology."" * The Wall Street Journal * ""Money's light-hearted writing helps prevent the lingo from becoming overwhelming, though, and readers who can weather the tricky language will find a fascinating and strange new world."" * Science News *"